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was facile
adjective
Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy.
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Boris Johnson's comparison of the EU with the Third Reich was facile.
If you thought that was facile, try this: sometimes really large audiences are great.
This was facile on behalf of the press, and readers deserve better.
As a painter, Sturtevant was facile but not up to persuasive forgery, had that been her goal.
In occasional speeches and frequent e-mails to the staff, he was facile, fond of obscure words and alliteration.
I discovered that I was facile with small mathematical models, with a knack for finding simplifying assumptions that made them tractable.
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That is facile.
Of course generalizations are facile.
It is facile.
I'm sorry, but that's facile.
That's facile, resonant — and unhelpful.
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